Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-15 (Sunday)

On Jun 16, 2025 at 9:06:10 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

Trainspotting (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Danny Boyle.  The movie
stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd
as a group of friends living in Scottland dealing with heroine
addiction.  The movie holds up very well.  On the commentary they said
Johhny Lee Miller was the only one in the cast who wasn't Scottish.  But
for the entire shooting of the movie, he only spoke in a Scottish accent
until the last day of filming when they wrapped and he switched to his
regular speaking voice.  When he started speaking normally, they didn't
think that was his real voice at first.

 
Hahahahahaha
 
It may not have been! Without practice, they forget how to do their
natural accent!

When I was a kid, my dad was in the Army and stationed in England for about a
year and my mom says we got out of there just in time because my siblings and
I were developing English accents. She thinks avoiding that was a good thing,
but I've always resented them for taking me away before that could set in
permanently. Imagine how much more action I would have gotten from girls
growing up in the U.S. if I had English accent!